Written by

Jeff Lockridge
| The Tennessean

Former Commodores basketball player Sheldon Jeter's appeal to transfer to Pittsburgh and be on athletic scholarship this coming season was denied by a Vanderbilt athletics advisory committee earlier this month.

Jeter announced his intention in May to transfer after his freshman year.

Vanderbilt compliance director Candice Storey Lee confirmed Thursday that the athletics department was informed of the committee's decision from the June 4 appeals hearing. The committee is made up of faculty members and university-affiliated individuals outside of athletics. ...